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11th March 2009
Fairchild Semiconductor Appoints Randy Carson to Board of Directors

Fairchild Semiconductor has announced the appointment of Randy W. Carson to the company’s board of directors. Carson has more than 35 years of experience in the power equipment and power distribution industries, most recently as chief executive officer of Eaton Corporation’s Electrical business unit, which grew under Carson’s leadership from a North American business of $2.2 billion to a major global enterprise with annual revenues of $7 bi...

Analysis
11th March 2009
Fairchild Semiconductor's Motion-SPM Products Optimize Power in Midea's New DC Air Conditioners

Fairchild Semiconductor has been selected by one of China’s largest manufacturers and exporters of household appliances, Midea Group, as its major supplier of inverter solutions for DC air conditioners. Fairchild’s Motion-SPM devices will be deployed in Midea’s innovative Galaxy product family, which consists of a comprehensive line of high-end, mid-end and low-end 180° sine wave control DC inverter air conditioners. Midea selected the dev...

Power
6th March 2009
Fairchild's Primary Side Regulation PWM Controllers Reduce Space

Fairchild Semiconductor enables a simplified and highly efficient circuit design for battery chargers and power supplies with its series of primary-side regulation pulse width modulation controllers. These EZSWITCH primary-side-regulation controllers integrate a primary-side regulation PWM controller with a power MOSFET that can easily achieve tight constant voltage and constant current without complex secondary-side feedback circuitry.

Communications
2nd March 2009
Fairchild's Optocoupler designed for Industrial Fieldbus Communications

Fairchild Semiconductor's FOD8001 answers the need for system engineers’ to design a robust industrial fieldbus network with low transmission error rates, low system failure rates and proven reliability over an extended period of time. Fairchild’s high performance optocouplers offer best-in-class noise immunity resulting from its proprietary coplanar packaging technology, Optoplanar.

Power
27th February 2009
Fairchild's MicroFET MOSFETs Extend Battery Life

Fairchild Semiconductor’s FDMA1024NZ and FDMA410NZ dual N-Channel and single N-Channel MOSFETs are said to extend battery life in applications such as cellular handsets, electric toothbrushes and shavers. Packaged in thermally enhanced 2mm x 2mm x 0.8mm MicroFET MLP packaging, ideal for space-constrained applications, they offer excellent power dissipation and ultra-low RDS(ON) to conserve battery life. These highly efficient MicroFET MOSFETs a...

Analysis
1st February 2008
Fairchild's Energy-Efficient Power Solutions to be Featured at APEC 2008

Fairchild Semiconductor will feature its highly integrated products and product demonstrations for motor, lighting and power supply applications in booth 304 at the Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC ). The conference focuses on the practical and applied aspects of the power electronics business and will be held February 24-28, 2008 in Austin, Texas.

Pending
9th January 2008
Fairchild Semiconductor Introduces the Industry’s Most Integrated CCFL Backlight Inverter Drive ICs for LCD Backlight Systems

Fairchild Semiconductor introduces the industry’s most integrated CCFL backlight inverter drive ICs providing space and cost savings, superior system reliability and simplified design for N-N half-bridge, push-pull, and P-N full-bridge LCD backlight inverter designs. The FAN7316 and FAN7317, featuring a wide input voltage range, and built-in open lamp protection (OLP) and open lamp regulation (OLR*) circuit, eliminate up to 30 external componen...

Pending
20th November 2007
Solenoid Driver Ensures Reliable Solenoid Control for Automotive & Industrial Inductive Load Applications

Fairchild Semiconductor has introduced the FDMS2380 , a Dual Integrated Solenoid Driver (DISD) with built-in recirculation and demagnetization circuits designed specifically for driving inductive loads. Other integrated features include over-voltage, over-current and over-temperature circuits to protect the device as well as a diagnostics feedback pin. The FDMS2380 is packaged in a space-saving 8mm x 12mm PQFN package.

Analysis
15th November 2007
Fairchild Appoints Dr. Justin Chiang Senior VP of Its New Power Conversion Product Group

Fairchild Semiconductor has appointed Dr. Justin Chiang, Senior Vice President of the newly formed Power Conversion, Industrial & Automotive Product Group. This new organization includes Fairchild’s Power Conversion, High Voltage and Automotive product lines and will focus on leveraging the group’s extensive expertise in developing advanced power supply and power management solutions for this fast growing market segment. Dr. Chiang formerly ...

Power
7th November 2007
Power Switches in SC-75 Packaging Lower Thermal Resistance in Portable Applications

Fairchild Semiconductor has released the FDMJ1023PZ and the FDFMJ2P023Z MicroFET power switches for low power (

Power
2nd November 2007
Power Switch from Fairchild said to increases efficiency up to 97 Percent in Resonant Converters up to 450W

Fairchild Semiconductor highly integrated Green FPS power switch, the FSFR2100 , increases power efficiency and system reliability, and reduces valuable design time in resonant converter designs such as telecom power, high end audio amplifiers, large size laser printers and LCD and PDP TV power supplies. Offering a “system-in-a-package” approach that integrates everything necessary to build reliable and efficient resonant converters, this pow...

Analysis
31st October 2007
Fairchild gets award from Cisco

Fairchild Semiconductor was presented with the “2007 Excellence in Supplier Account Team Service Award” from Cisco. The award was presented recently at the Cisco 16th annual supplier appreciation event to the supplier who best demonstrated proactive, consistent support across Cisco’s organization and regional locations.

Power
19th October 2007
Rectifiers Increase Power Supply Efficiency and Reliability While Reducing Space

Fairchild Semiconductor is helping power supply designers achieve higher levels of efficiency in less space with seven new STEALTH II fast-recovery diodes. These STEALTH II rectifiers feature fast reverse recovery and soft recovery characteristics that enable reduced MOSFET switching losses and EMI in continuous-current-mode (CCM) power factor correction (PFC) designs. Alternate solutions provide snappy reverse recovery, but this is at the expens...

Pending
11th October 2007
Gate Driver from Fairchild offers reliability and space savings

Fairchild Semiconductor’s high voltage gate driver IC with 4A current driving capability ensures exceptional system reliability and space benefits in consumer and industrial applications. Featuring the industry’s widest high-side driver operation with negative VS swings of up to -9.8V (at VBS = 15V), robust positive and negative VB and an innovative common-mode dv/dt noise canceling circuit, the FAN7371 provides excellent noise immunity and ...

Micros
21st September 2007
Fairchild's Integrated FET Module Delivers 50 Percent Space-Savings in Synchronous Buck Converter Designs

Fairchild Semiconductor ’s FDMS9600S and FDMS9620S are two highly integrated modules that significantly reduce board space while providing the ability to achieve higher conversion efficiency in synchronous buck designs. Each module in the FDMS96xx series combines a high-side and low-side N-Channel MOSFET and one monolithically integrated Schottky diode into a single, space-efficient, 5mm x 6mm MLP package. This integration results in a highly e...

Pending
18th September 2007
Current Sense Ignition IGBT for Automotive Applications is a first says Fairchild

Fairchild Semiconductor’s FGB3040CS is said to be the industry’s first standard current sense ignition IGBT. This IGBT lowers power dissipation by 30 percent and reduces heat in automotive applications by eliminating the need for a high current sense resistor. With the ability to sense current, the FGB3040CS replaces the high power sense resistor with a smaller, low current sense resistor, simplifying system component requirements and total ...

Analysis
18th September 2007
Fairchild Semiconductor’s System General Subsidiary Wins Prestigious National Invention Award 2007

System General, the Taiwan-based wholly-owned subsidiary of Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS) targeting worldwide AC/DC off-line power conversion applications, has won two of Taiwan’s prestigious National Invention Awards 2007.

Analysis
13th September 2007
Fairchild Semiconductor Repeat Winner for Top 10 DC-DC Product Awards

Fairchild Semiconductor has once again been named a winner in Electronic Product China’s Top 10 DC-DC 2007 product awards. The judging panel selected Fairchild’s FDMF8700 fully optimized, integrated 12V driver plus MOSFET power stage solution as a winner. Fairchild’s 30V synchronous buck converter chip set, FDS6298 and FDS6299S won the same award in 2006.

Power
4th September 2007
Efficient Power Modules Save Space in Home Appliances and Industrial Motors Up to 3kW

Fairchild Semiconductor introduces ten highly efficient, integrated Motion-SPM power modules for home appliances and industrial motors up to the 3kW power range. Integrating fully tested components––three HVICs, one LVIC, six NPT IGBTs, six FRDs and three bootstrap diodes––into a compact 44mm x 26.8mm Mini-DIP package, these Motion-SPM modules offer superior inverter-based control for energy-efficient three-phase motors. Replacing as man...

Analysis
29th August 2007
Secure Data, Two-Port Multiplexer is a first says Fairchild

Fairchild Semiconductor’s FSSD06 is said to be the first multiplexer that supports high voltage and dual voltage secure digital (SD)/secure digital I/O (SDIO)/ multimedia cards, creating the ability to expand the ASIC and the baseband processor SDIO port. The FSSD06 is ideal for use in multi-functional portable applications such as GPS devices, cell phones, digital cameras, MP3 players and printers. This secure data, two-port multiplexer enabl...

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